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Follow Your World

January 28, 2011

Follow Your World is an interesting Google service, which will alert users via email whenever the maps on Google mapping products will be updated. The user will be warned only to update the sites, which pre-selects itself. The user can choose a specific point on the map, name it and also to define the email to which will be sent information about the changes. This applies to mapping services Google Maps and Google Earth. Follow Your World also provides a handy dashboard to manage your subscriptions.

LibreOffice 3.3

January 25, 2011

From today is available the first stable version 3.3 of office suite LibreOffice which is issued by the organization Document Foundation. The office suite was still in September last year, is based on open-source OpenOffice.org source code. It also contains some new enhancements as compared to OpenOffice such as support for importing SVG files and better formatting of cover pages in Writer. Of course it also includes support for millions of rows in Calc and new options for importing CSV files.

Opera Mini

January 21, 2011

Company Opera Software revealed in their report details of the number of users of their product Opera Mini. In the last month of year 2010 it used more than 85.5 million users. This means 6.9% increase over the previous month and compared to December in 2009 increase by 84.7%. Thanks to Opera Mini there were viewed 44.6 billion pages, transferred 706 terabytes of data. Opera Mini was the most common in Russia, Indonesia and India.

Successful application from 14 years old boy

January 18, 2011

In the United States and Australia the most popular application for mobile operating systems iOS is game, which is written by 14-year-old Robert Nay. Bubble Ball game is simulation uses the laws of physics, the player trying to get a swift ball to its destination and must use objects and gravity. Nay spent several months writing the game, and his mother helped him with some parts. Bubble Ball is also available in Slovakia, but here is only the fourth most popular game.

The best-seller game for PC is

January 11, 2011

New record in number PC-game copies sold for one month was created by online role-playing game World of Warcraft (WoW). More specifically, the third expansion pack labelled Catalysm. The game was listed seventh December and the first month managed to sell a whopping 4.7 million copies. This pack also holds another record and the record in number of copies sold during the first 24 hours after launch. For the single and the first day the company sold 3.3 million copies.

Android SMS bug

January 10, 2011

Google confirmed that its popular mobile operating system Android contains SMS bug. This means that SMS messages were ever sent to another recipient from the contacts list as the user selected. The problem may be that the built-in SMS application sometimes open another conversation, as to which the user click. The good news is that the company has managed to reproduce and develop a fix that they will deploy. Google also recommends double checking the current message in order to avoid such failure.

Vulnerability in Windows

January 5, 2011

Operating system Microsoft Windows has vulnerability, which can take control of your pc. Specifically it is the vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine. This error is not in any OS, is not present in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. It occurs in Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the security context of the logged-on user. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.

iPhone’s problem with Alarm

January 3, 2011

Non-repeating alarms set only for one day did not wake owners of iPhones and other devices running on iOS of version 4.0 and above in the first two days of January 2011. Apple has acknowledged this problem and says that should last only until 3 January. Repeated alarm set for certain days of the week did not have problem during the first days of the new year. The reason has not been given but the glitch appears to affect single alarm settings on the iPhone 4 and earlier models with software updates.

Skype video calls for iOS

December 30, 2010

Skype has updated its free iPhone app, adding the ability to make video calls over 3G mobile networks. The updated app is available for download from Apple's app store. Skype for iPhone 3.0 will run on the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and fourth-generation iPod Touch running iOS 4.0 or above. For the best call quality Skype recommends using Wi-Fi. The new video calling feature is compatible with Skype's latest apps for PCs running Windows, Linux or Mac OS X.

Mobile app for the color-blind

December 29, 2010

Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher, who became famous mainly thanks to the discovery of one of the most serious vulnerabilities in Internet infrastructure, now releases a new application. DanKam application is designed for smartphones and helps color-blind people to distinguish colors, especially those who suffer from a lack of sensitivity to green light. It works on live video from the smartphone camera applies the selected filter (available from 8 filters), which pushes against the actual color. Users pay only 2.39€ for the app and from this month is available for Android and iOS but later it will be issued for other mobile platforms.

The third position for Facebook

December 27, 2010

According to comScore statistics website of social networking Facebook is the third largest website in the world. Facebook passed Yahoo page in the number of users visiting the site per month. The only two Web properties left which are bigger than Facebook are Microsoft (869 million worldwide visitors) and Google (970 million) when you look at all of their sites collectively. In March 2008, Facebook was at the 9th position gradually overtaken by MySpace, Amazon, eBay, AOL, Wikipedia and Yahoo eventually.

VirtualBox 4.0

December 23, 2010

Oracle yesterday released their first stable version of popular virtualization software, VirtualBox. It is specifically for version 4.0, which of course brings with it several new features. Should be improved I /O performance when accessing the disk image formats VMDK, VHD and to drive through iSCSI through the use of asynchronous I /O. It is supported by the new virtual hardware, Intel ICH9 and Intel HD Audio chipsets. We find that the modified interface virtual machine manager and many other.

Word Lends - an interesting application

December 20, 2010

Late last week the company Quest Visual launched its very interesting application. Application called Word Lens, which is designed to translate text and only available to the operating system iOS used in the iPhone, can recognize and translate the text directly by replacing it the live shot camera smartphone. Also knows the translated text is displayed in a similar color, rotation and even a similar font. The application translates the short foreign-language texts, such as text on signs, shops, several warnings on the streets and even the menu in restaurants.

LinkedIn launches new Android app

December 17, 2010

LinkedIn has launched a new Android app in beta, which provides users view updates, search for people, respond to invitations, and keep in touch with connections. According to the company it is the first time we’ve done a public beta for a mobile app in LinkedIn. The company also promises to improve upon the app, however, adding additional features in the coming months. The application requires at least version 2.1 operating system Android.

Facebook – face recognition software

December 16, 2010

Facebook, the best known and most used social networking site, launches its new functionality, which is the automatic recognition of people in the photos, which are added to Facebook. Facebook will now propose adding the user's name recognition people collectively for the whole group from the relevant people in your photos. Condition for the application proposal is its confirmation by the user. The settings of the user will be able to adjust to its presence in the photographs was not automatically recognized by a proposed.

Google Latitude

December 14, 2010

A new application appeared in the iTunes App Store and it is Google Latitude for mobile devices from Apple running iOS. This application allows users to mutually share their location with other selected persons. So far, this service was only for the iPhone as a Web page that updated the user's location only when you had open site Google Latitude. Now, however, new applications can continuously update your position, even when running in the background or not does not enjoy running.

Innovative YouTube app for Android

December 9, 2010

Since Wednesday is available the new version 2.1 of YouTube application, which Google provides. YouTube makes videos of the same name the most popular video sharing Web service. The new version is available on the Android Market. On the home screen in the new version displays a list of videos, the first positions of the videos from the channels into which the user is logged on. The new YouTube application works only on devices running on operating system Android 2.2

3DMark 11 in 3 versions

December 8, 2010

After a slight delay, Futuremark has finally released all three versions of 3DMark 11 of its popular benchmarking software. It is designed for testing graphics cards compatible with DirectX 11, including hardware tessellation, multithreaded and depth of field. This application consists of six new tests. Four focused on graphics, one physics ane one combining CPU and GPU workloads. Naturally 3DMark 11 requires DirectX 11, a DirectX 11 compatible video card, and Windows 7 or Vista.

A Priority Inbox update

December 7, 2010

Yesterday Google unveiled some new features on their Gmail webmail services, specifically for Priority Inbox. The first is to show reason why the mail was marked as important and a small pop-UPE when placing the cursor on the yellow mark it shows an important email. Is it some brief explanation of the "Important because you marked it as important" or “important mainly because of the people in conversation "and the like. The second change is quickly learning to the changes undertaken in the selection of important messages manually by the user.

Total Commander 7.56

December 2, 2010

Well-known file manager Total Commander has its new stabile version 7.56, which you can download since yesterday. It certainly includes same small new features and also repairs some failures. First news is for find files, new version is able to keep last search results when using “Go to file” or “Cancel”. Another features is button bar right click menu and there is an option to run a program as administrator and the last is lister and compare by content, Auto-detect UTF-8 files by their content.

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